Consistently recognized as one of Boston’s best, Bakers’ Best, an eleven-time “Best of Boston” winner, and a rapidly growing owner-driven company specializing in full service event and corporate catering with a high volume café, retail take-out food store, and restaurant in Newton Highlands, has a unique opening for a talented individual.

About the position

Bakers’ Best is looking for an energetic and experienced Staff Accountant who is pleasant and able to work in a team environment.   Responsibilities include managing daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and operational information.  Will perform all duties related to payroll, inventory, general ledger and accounts payable.

General Qualifications

• Accounting degree or equivalent is preferred.  Understanding of basic accounting principles is a must.  Prior experience in the food service industry is also preferred.
• 2 years minimum working experience in a finance or accounting department.
• Prior A/P and A/R experience.  Experience with cash management.
• Payroll processing experience using a large outside third party.
• Ability to reconcile all detail from required accounts to the general ledger.
• Ability to coordinate information from many different sources in an efficient and effective manner. 
• Must be extremely confidential as financial information may not be shared with internal or external individuals other than owners.
• Takes initiative to update bookkeeping processes and to keep the role current.
• Focus on continuous improvement of operations
• Understands and can develop, implement and enforce accounting policies, procedures, financial controls and segregations of duties. 
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Understands processes to coordinate change management in all aspects of the role.
• Flexibility in job tasks and deadlines.  There will be temporary and permanent changes in the type, amount and deadlines for work required.  
• Attention to detail and the ability to perform new work activities with a minimum of direction.
• Knowledge of Microsoft office is required (Excel, Word, Outlook).

Job Functions

Manage day to day accounts payable, payroll and general ledger activities including but not limited to:

Accounts Payable

• Enter AP invoices, check vendor statements and reconcile credit card accounts.
• Reviews cash management requirements with accounting management.
• Cut vendor checks or send electronic payments for A/P. Send to management for approval.
• Prepare monthly statements for vendors.

General Ledger Management

• Locate discrepancies in meals tax for POS system and sales reporting issues

• Reconcile all appropriate G/L accounts on a weekly basis.  Financials should be closed FBD plus 5 each month.
• Determine the proper accrual amount for all accounts that must be accrued at year end.
• Oversee entering of daily store receipts and allocate miscellaneous expenses.
• Reconcile bank statement and monthly transactions all G/L accounts on a weekly basis. 
• Provide departments with information about costs per management requests. 
• Provide monthly, quarterly and annual revenue and expense reporting as requested and required by management.
• Learn, understand, adhere to store policies and procedures.
• Back up computer files.
• Verify the bank received cash drops.
• Run catering credit card reports and reconcile.

Payroll responsibilities

• Enter payroll and transmit.
• Download E- time (payroll) information.

• Produce the overtime report for all departments.
• Runs employee hours summary report and corrects any obvious errors
• Calculate 408P and pay.
• Calculate child support payments and pay.
• Oversee entering of catering payroll.
• Enter tip payroll.
• Record and reconcile payroll. 
• Review each payroll run by spot checking for accuracy.
• Update salaried employee’s hours.
• Calculate and electronically file Meals Tax and Sales & Use Tax.
• Report tip income and allocation. File form with IRS.
• Calculate 1099’s and send.
• Complete unemployment paperwork

Inventory responsibilities

• Distribute on-line inventory sheets for Needham and Newton to fill in on-line quarterly.
• Review completed inventory numbers, ensure completeness and reasonableness.
• Complete pricing portion of inventory by using most average current prices available.
• Update general ledger for completed inventory.

Other

• Organize and/or clean out prior years record for storage.
• Put together information for tax returns and coordinate with accountant to file.
• Handle workers compensation claims.
• Order deposit bags and deposit slips.
• Order checks.